Mychal Denzel Smith
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ActivismMarch 6, 2015
DOJ Report Confirms Racism Is Alive and Well in Ferguson. Now What?
We need decriminalization, not just data.
Mychal Denzel Smith
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ActivismFebruary 26, 2015
Three Years Later, the Legacy of Trayvon Martin and #BlackLivesMatter
The tragic death of Trayvon Martin inspired a new generation of activists who fight to make black lives matter.
Mychal Denzel Smith
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ActivismFebruary 25, 2015
In Order to End Police Brutality, We Need to End the Police
Activists and organizers gathered at the Schomburg Center to interrogate the current conditions of American policing.
Mychal Denzel Smith
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ActivismFebruary 11, 2015
There’s No #BlackLivesMatter Without Net Neutrality
A new generation of civil rights activists depends on a free Internet.
Mychal Denzel Smith
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Racism and DiscriminationFebruary 10, 2015
From ‘Victim’ to ‘Threat’: James Baldwin and the Demands of Self-Respect
Baldwin yielded to nobody in his quest to weed racism out of the American garden—root and branch.
Mychal Denzel Smith
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ActivismFebruary 6, 2015
Bratton’s Police State on Steroids
The formation of the NYPD’s new Strategic Response Unit raises disturbing questions about police brutality.
Mychal Denzel Smith
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ActivismJanuary 19, 2015
A National Day of Service Is No Honor to MLK
Service, without activism, doesn’t capture King’s true radicalism.
Mychal Denzel Smith
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ActivismJanuary 9, 2015
Ava DuVernay: ‘Selma’ Is the ‘Vision of a Black Storyteller Undiluted’
The director explains why Selma matters now.
Mychal Denzel Smith
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Ethical EconomicsJanuary 7, 2015
We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas.
In a country that has always used race to justify inequality, ending police brutality is just the start.
Jesse A. Myerson and Mychal Denzel Smith
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CitiesDecember 22, 2014
The Deaths of Two NYPD Officers Is Tragic, but Not an Indictment of the Anti-Brutality Movement
We all should mourn the deaths of Liu and Ramos—but that mourning doesn't mean we become less critical of the police as a violent and racist tool of oppression.
Mychal Denzel Smith